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Cucumis ficifolius

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Identification
Cucumis ficifolius A.Rich. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Jeffrey, Cucumis pustulatus Naudin ex Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Cucumis figarei Delile ex Naudin [family CUCURBITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cucumis meeusei
  • Cucumis abyssinicus
  • Cucumis ficifolius
  • Cucumis figarei
  • Cucumis pustulatus
Common name
  • cicidu (ZOG) hamanya (JMD; ZOG) kam fakara, kam makwarwa =francolin’s head; from the striped fruit (JMD) yamanya (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • gerlal = bush fowl (MM) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • agtastaf (AN) tagasrarit (Kesby; AN) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC (Hassaniya)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • cicudu (ZOG) gunar zaki = lion’s melon (PF fide MM) kaк̉aimi, maк̉aimi = spiny one (JMD; ZOG) kam-makwarwaa (ZOG) kàncíkúlkùl, kanfakaraa (ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • céŋ-kànì (pl. -íà) = rat’s melon (D&C) (NIGER, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • gùnò gùnó = white melon, from L.Chad area: perhaps this sp. (C&H) (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CUCUMIS ficifolius A. Rich. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: C. Jeffrey
Names
CUCUMIS ficifolius A. Rich. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 294, t .53 bis (1847), non sensu A. Meeuse in Bothalia 8: 81 (1962). Type: Ethiopia, Adua, Quartin-Dillon & Petit (P, lecto.!)
CUCUMIS abyssinicus A. Rich. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 294 (1847). Type: Ethiopia, Adua, Quartin-Dillon & Petit (P, holo.!)
CUCUMIS figarei Naud. var. cyrtopodus [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, 11: 17 (1859). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Mt. Sholoda, Quartin-Dillon & Petit (P, holo.!)
CUCUMIS figarei Naud. var. microphyllus [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, 11: 17 (1859). Type: Ethiopia, without precise locality, Rochet d’Héricourt (P, holo.!)
CUCUMIS figarei [family CUCURBITACEAE], [sensu F.T.A. 2: 544 (1871), pro parte, excl. spec. cit. Welwitsch & Kirk et excl. syn. C. chrysocomo Schumach., non Naud. sensu stricto]
Information
Perennial usually prostrate herb; stems up to 1 m. long, hairy with coarse ± aculeate hairs and also with finer intermixed spreading hairs; basal stems thickened with light-coloured bark, arising from a thickened rootstock. Leaf-blade ± ovate in outline, weakly cordate or subtruncate at the base, somewhat sinuate-toothed, very rough-hairy above and beneath, 20–71 mm. long, 20–74 mm. broad, 0.8–1.2 times as long as broad, palmately 3–5-lobed; lobes rather rounded above, somewhat narrowed below, with the central lobe largest, sometimes itself ± 3-lobulate, 20–53 mm. long, 0.7–0.9 times as long as the whole blade, narrowed at its base to 0.3–0.9 of its breadth at its broadest; petiole 10–35 mm. long, hairy like the stems. Male flowers solitary on 3–12 mm. long pedicels; receptacle-tube 2.5–4 mm. long; lobes filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla yellow, with lobes 4–7 mm. long, 2–3.5 mm. broad, united below. Female flowers on 6–12 mm. long stalks; ovary ellipsoid, 5–7 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. across, covered with forward-pointing hyaline bristles; receptacle-tube 3–4 mm. long; lobes subulate-filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla-lobes 5–9 mm. long, 2.5–5 mm. broad. Fruit (fig. 15/3, p. 95) on a 7–25 mm. long stalk, bluntly ellipsoid, 23–50(–88) mm. long, 12–30(–63) mm. across, beset with rather closely scattered broadly conical low pustules each ending in a broad blunt bristle derived from the hairs of the ovary, dark green with 10 longitudinal pale green or grey-green longitudinal stripes, ripening deep yellow. Seeds ellipsoid, 5 × 2.5 × 1.2 mm. Fig. 16/1–7, p. 101.
Range
DISTR. U3; K1, 3, 4, 6, 7; T2
Altitude range
1070–2700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Uasin Gishu District Eldoret, Ol Dane Sapuk, 26 Apr. 1951, G. R. Williams 141!KENYA Kiambu District Muguga, Jan. 1960, Verdcourt 2621!KENYA Masai District about 10 km. S. of Nairobi, Bahati, 16 May 1933, C. G. Rogers 472!TANGANYIKA Masai District Ngorongoro, Malanja, 17 Nov. 1957, Tanner 3791!TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Mbulumbul, 18 June 1946, Greenway 7772!TANGANYIKA Moshi District Engare Nairobi, 20 June 1944, Greenway 6888!UGANDA Elgon, Kabaroni, 12 Apr. 1927, Snowden 1061!
Distribution (external)
; Ethiopia

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